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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashtagon" data-source="post: 6017689" data-attributes="member: 72335">I'm frankly astonished at how you can twist "good is not nice" into a claim that "good" encourages genocide and rape. I can't even see the spurious logic that might be used to reach that conclusion.I said good is not nice. I didn't say good can't be nice. "Nice" is just another axis on the alignment chart. Some good actions are nice; some aren't. Some evil actions are nice (busting open a jail to release hundreds of hardened criminals is probably quite a nice thing to do as far as those criminals are concerned, but probably doesn't help society much); some aren't.ON the contrary, simply releasing those prisoners in the OP's scenario is extremely easy to do. It requires no further thought of energy spent.And here we have another axis on the alignment chart: easy. Good, Nice, Easy. Three different axes on the chart, which sometimes match up and sometimes don't. Morality is a complex subject.Releasing the prisoners: Probably not good if they are known to have harmed good communities and they are likely to do so again (probably needs a higher authority to decide). Very easy to do. Nice too.Executing them: Good by Medieval morality codes, probably not by modern codes. Easy (they just defeated them in combat, so not a great challenege now). Not nice.Extract a promise to reform then release: Definitely Good. And Nice. Easiness is really hard to judge. Ease really depends on how convincing they are.Take to court of justice: Good by modern codes, questionable by medieval codes. Not easy. Moderately nice.Take to court of execution/lynch mob: Not good, especially is the PCs know the likely result, even if the monsters are known to be evil (it encourages hatred and anger in civilians). Not easy either, and definitely not nice.See how good, easy and nice don't always coincide now?By "benefit" I wasn't referring to wealth, or survivability, or popularity. I was referring to that which enhances and nourishes their souls/spirits. IN a D&D game world, this is a very real thing.</blockquote>

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